3,000-Strong and Growing: The CIA’s Army of Assassins in Afghanistan

The fact that the CIA has been assembling a “secret Army” in Afghanistan has never been a particularly closely guarded secret. The fact that they are assassinating people in Afghanistan is no secret either. What is a secret, however, is just how big this group is.

The use of them inside Pakistani territory will likely be the most far-reaching of the revelations, however, despite Pakistani military denials that this had ever taken place. Pakistan’s allowing of CIA drone attacks against its territory has been controversial, to say the least, but letting “boots on the ground” into the country is a much bigger issue.

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See the other article about homegrown terrorists. Sounds to me like the above is a description of thousands of American homegrown terrorists.

American, the land of liberty, is now sending thousands of assasins abroad.

The really scary question though is what happens next. The bad part of training thousands of assassins is that they don't just disappear when some official waves their hand. History says that such forces often take the power away from the officials. More than one king has been overthrown by his own secret assassins and terrorists.

What's the world look like when these people are all working for Blackwater? Stories last week talked about blackwater advertising their services to corporate clients. How many of these assassins will end up protecting Monsanto's 'brand-rights' from the smears of any farmers who don't like buying their GM seeds every year.

Fraudulent elections, secret prisons and armies of assassins. Thank you Barbara Lee for being the only congressperson to vote against this. Curses on all the other Democrats and Republicans who've unleashed this hell upon the world.

I wonder if Jefferson and Madison ever imagined that their land of freedom could turn into this as they traded letters.

Exactly- there is no magic wand that washes the lawless henchmen of empire clean of blood when they come back home. You cannot sustain an army of amoral lawless spies and mischief makers and not expect these sorts and their "methods" to become a routine part of our political system.

I know the country and people and I always pleading that CIA is a notorious organisation and is biggest killer in Pakistan and so called suicide bombers is a collaboration work with Indian RAW as these suicide bombers were introduced by Tamil-Tiger with the support of India and RAW.__I am disgusted and furious wenn CIA is killing poor Pakhtuins for their crime that htey fought for CIA and CIA has led US to desaster and biggest country acussed by Muslims and a proxi war against Muslims.__There is a no secret to purchase a life in tribal areas with only 10000 dollars.

Oh Jason, how can you endure those facts? I felt almost ill reading the recent book by Tom Engelhardt, and haven't finished it yet, because it seems so overwhelmingly bizarre and evil, that world of the Empire and its supporters.

I have always said that whenever and wherever somebody is assassinated anywhere in the world the CIA should be the first to be suspected, and that includes our 'friends and allies'. America may be a democracy at home but throughout the rest of the world it is a dictatorship, and like every dictatorship has its secret police and agents. I always cringe when there is a bombing or air crash in some other country and the first thing they do is call in the American FBI, presumably to cover up the evidence and plant bogus leads. Probably called in by American agents who have infiltrated just about every government in the world.

This is the most important reality people need to understand and rise up against. We are looking at Pol Pot II, the killing of men and women with integrity and education.____I hope that everyone will join me in embracing those who have been killed or are threatened as family.____The intent is to leave Afghanistan, like Iraq, under the control of an intelligence agency designed Theocratic tyrany. ____Full spectrum dominance, no freedom of religion and conscience allowed. This is the very antithesis of the essence of what our country is supposed to stand for. ____The theocratic tyranny that we set up in Iran under the Reagan-Bush regime when the Shah was toppled EXECUTES dissident protesters for CRIMES AGAINST GOD. To protest against them is a crime against God?!!!____Think about it. What if our non-violent resisters to our unconstitutional wars of empire would be treated like this here at home?! ____—Bob Ficalora

Yea, CIA… You go on killin the Umah…. More were born today than you killed last month, probably last year….an…… AAAHHEEEMMMNNNN….. …!! You know who you are.. You who have set this mayhem in motion…… Tick…Tick…Tick…. Why resurrect operation Phoenix…. A failure and a blight on America too… No sense of history is an awful thing to see… Puts the lie to the "hearts and minds" BS by BetrayUs..

Hi Mv:
I'm thinking that yesterday Mueller is "testifying" to Herr Lieberman's committee on Homeland Histrionics and Lieberman is coaching Mueller and Collins is coaching Mueller and Mueller offers up NO statistics to lend credibility to his screed about 'domestic terroristas'. Not that Lieberman's committee would ask for any. None of course, would be required. I watched for about an hour on Cspan and left me pondering. Why and why now. So, out comes the disclosure of the CIA's assassins and goon squads working the Afghaniscam and you know the freaks are walking around here. Obomba figures it's okie-dokie to assassinate Americans on his say so.
So, I'm thinking that U.S. government spooky types are gearing up for more renditions, detentions, torture, and 'we the people' won't even get a polite heads up.
Screwy freaks pull off another fake 9/11 manner of black ops and, here come de martial law.
Pure conjecture on my part and I concede that. But and however… I've got a bad feeling about all this.

Thanks skulz for the sketch.. I have no TV and I have not seen ONE headline about Jaffa Joe having hearings and/or the never referred to topic… Perhaps I missed it, then again, reading Joe's tea leaves is so easy, It's all about somewhere else!! Maybe that is why he attempts the illusion of concern about [local] "home grown terrorists" What a wonderful guy, he cares about us folks here…!!! Only at election though… Thanks again for your time to spell it out for me/us!!

When will International law catch up with the USA ? Just imagine if this kind of internationa killings had been organised by some other country so openly like say Cuba, Iran, China or Russia. How would the world have reacted ? what would the UN agencies have done ? How long will the USA be allowed to invade other countries,use local leaders to arrest people in their own countries who then disappear perhaps to a jail under US control like has happened in Pakistan or destablise regimes in power in other countries like they have done in Latin America ? Assasinations, Bribery, use of International Monetary organisations to browbeat leaders of countries,armed support for Dictators as in Pakistan,Iraq & Cambodia to name a few over the last 6 decades is a small part of the long list of International crimes that the US has done openly.

The reality is that the US has done all this in full public view of the rest of the world. There has been nothing clandistine about this. Everyone has known what the US has done. Hundreds of books and thousands of publications are available on these activities. Who will stop this ? Does the world have a future or will the 21st century be the worst ever in human history ?